David Lattin
David Lattin
David "Big Daddy D" Lattinwas the starting center for the Texas Western Miners in their NCAA championship year in 1966. During his playing career, he was listed at 6 feet 6 inches tall, and 225 pounds...
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One of the reasons it's so important to me is it has allowed me to reach out to youngsters, explain to them where we came from, what we did, why the game was so important. We could compete with anybody. They can win as well and do anything they want to do if they want to do it bad enough.
gentleman hard played type
It was a gentleman type of game. They played hard to win, and we played hard to win.
happen houston players quickly saw south sudden teams
All of the sudden you saw teams in the South like Houston go get players like Don Chaney and Elvin Hayes -- that probably doesn't happen so quickly if we don't win.